Sentences with phrase «prose does»

Now, don't get me wrong — if a story is terrific, or the characters are unique, I might read on even if the prose doesn't sparkle and the structure isn't tight.

Politics & Prose doesn't sell used books, but I'm curious on your thoughts about such a partnership.

While Politics & Prose doesn't officially link to any used - book site, we do get many questions that lead to the out - of - print problem and I usually send them to Alibris.

Speaking for myself, sometimes I want the extra dimension of intimacy and interiority that good literary prose does best.

Brilliant prose doesn't count for near so much as we'd like to think.

Ultimately, Kafka is my reminder that prose doesn't need to brag to be absolutely brilliant.

Wallace's masterful prose doesn't translate to cinematic language, and I doubt it would work in any context other than the page.

Odd again, because, despite my best efforts to see something heroic in this man's biography, which might explain what his prose does not, I confess to see at best what Stephen Spender referred to, in a 1979 New York Review of Books piece (March 25, p. 13) on modern German self - analysis, as «der Nebel,» the fog that «allows people to live with unbearable experiences»; the fog that made it possible to «go along» or «not know.»

Now maybe they just thought my prose didn't need changes for flow or tightening (* snort *), or maybe line editing isn't actually their strength.

The style, genre, and initial quality of the prose do make a huge difference in terms of the kind and amount of editorial work that needs to be done, obviously.

Francine Prose did.

For many, myself included, Hughes's prose did for art criticism what Shakespeare did for the stage.

At the 31st annual Collectors Committee fundraiser, LACMA announced its acquisition of nine new works including: the first Chinese spirit stone to enter the museum's holdings; Sonia Delaunay's abstract masterpiece La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France (1913), and a suite of three artworks by Middle Eastern contemporary artists Shirin Neshat, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, and Yasmin Sinai.

His clipped, effective prose did not rise to those heights, nor did his ideas about art have the generous scope and grandeur of Ruskin's cultural vision.

Other major lots included La prose du Transsibérien, 1913, by Blaise Cendrars and illustrated by Sonia Delaunay.

Not exact matches

From a personal standpoint, poetry has a way of making me remember life's beauty, something mere prose or narrative storytelling can not do with the same grace.

They do all this while dealing with temperamental writers who think their prose should never be changed and with even more temperamental editors who sincerely believe they are God's gift not only to journalism, but the universe.

The most compelling prose or the most enticing offer in the galaxy isn't going to do you a smidge of good if no one opens the email.

While mastering the art of good email etiquette doesn't mean sending out beautifully crafted prose each time — that would take forever — if you can avoid these bad habits, you'll be off to a great start.

Don't limit it to just one art form: poll your group for their interests in music (all kinds), painting, drawing, sculpture, drama, prose, poetry, graffiti art and dance (all styles).

Even though this may not be the best written prose, it is Young's first work and it does transport the story fairly well.

Like biblical Hebrew, Atwood's witty prose is thick with double entendre and allusion, including hidden puns whose meanings dawn on us only later, and outrageous jokes that don't so much dawn as «bomb» (one of the book's metaphors and an effect of Atwood's powerfully laconic style)

However what I do know is that Naked Pastor art and pithy prose is a blessing to me.

Yes, Graber's lines do possess fluent syntax, which she skillfully plays against her line - endings and internal pauses; but what happens within her lines rarely exceeds the level of good prose.

Dramatizing the trauma of expulsion from Paradise, Maine sometimes employs the cadences of the Old Testament («The sun rises and sets and does not change») and sometimes the concise, allusive conjunction of high and low that characterizes modern prose (as in the Babel image, or when Eve reflects on their vicissitudes «ever since their departure from the Garden to fight their way through this deathtrap called Creation»).

Much of the most important work they do» the articles they reject, the prose in accepted articles that they bring to high polish (or at least to intelligibility)» is known to but a few.

Similarly, to turn Augustine's poetic prose into verse, as Boulding does at several points, is to impose on the reader a literary self - consciousness that Augustine knew well but declined to use.

We didn't understand that when we read ancient Hebrew prose poems (like Genesis 1), wisdom literature (like Proverbs), or apocalyptic literature (like Revelation) as if they were science textbooks, we were actually obscuring their meaning.»

We are the poorer because Underhill did not express her pacifist feelings in verse, but the strength of her viewpoint is Unmistakable in her prose.

Why then did they leave the hymn of the Cosmic Christ in prose in Colossians 1:15 - 20?

I definitely don't think that way, I'm always reading your prose with the picture, and I don't have any «oh no!»

But contrary to some,» we do not hold that this is a superlative prose masterpiece because of its «objectivity.»

The poets of antiquity did not simply narrate events, whether historical or fictional using standard prose, but rather placed the characters of the stories in an active and real - time dialogue.

Did the prose improve?

Your story reminds me of when I was reading «Heat» and wanted to run right into my kitchen and try some of the recipes Buford described (first the Italian lady's pasta, one egg, one etto of flour — see, easy, I remember, then Batali's pasta that he didn't publish in the Babbo cookbook, then a seafood pasta... and all with really no recipe, just prose.

The pool boy, his muscular prose rippling with the upper body strength of 10 novelists, has an inexplicable contempt for men who do not hurl themselves into the literary whirlpool.

If he were not the champion of the British Empire, and if the patriotism of fading glory did not steam up the prose of the British sportswriters, he would seem to be what he is — a willing trial horse, a dogged tub of fat.

Unlike his father Governor Mario Cuomo, the early Governor Andrew Cuomo did not gravitate to polishing the prose in his speeches until he produced poetry.

Attlee did not campaign in poetry; indeed, given his famously monosyllabic nature, he might even have questioned the need for any more prose than necessary when governing.

Whether foraging for berries thousands of years ago or combing over raw prose as I do now, countless generations of women have found a way to balance their daily duties and child care.

In a story overseen by an editor named Whittaker Chambers, the magazine noted with its typical prose from the period: «[T] here will be dimly discernible, to those who are interested in cause & effect in history, the features of a shy, almost saintly, childlike little man with the soft brown eyes, the drooping facial lines of a world - weary hound, and hair like an aurora borealis... Albert Einstein did not work directly on the atom bomb.

Science writers, she observes, must absorb complex information quickly and write fluid prose, but they don't have to be specialists.

Siegl also found that interpersonal relationships are less frequently mentioned by men (19.27 per cent), and even when they do venture into this alien territory, «the human element» is missing: women are, in both prose and graphic depictions, «reduced to sex objects».

It didn't help that his two - volume work, The Theory of the Earth, was written in prose so impenetrable that hardly anyone read it.

That does not mean that you should swill vodka if you want a laser focus on Tolstoy's deathless prose, though.

The result is an avalanche of detail — there seems to be no species he did not contemplate — thankfully delivered in accessible, conversational prose.

THE ADVENT of the spell - checker has brought a new class of typographical error to the prose of those who don't proofread carefully.

A very short list of his twenty books of poetry includes The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems (1990), which won the Pulitzer Prize; Walking the Black Cat (1996), a National Book Award finalist; Jackstraws (1999), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; and Selected Poems: 1963 — 2003 (2004), which won the 2005 International Griffin Poetry Prize.

Readers of Banks's prose will find in these poems many aspects of his writing with which they're already familiar: a humane and materialist sensibility, an unflinching stare at the damage people can do to each other, a warm appreciation of the joy they can give to each other, a revel in language, a geologically informed gaze on land and sea, a continued meditation on what it means for us to be mortal embodied minds with a fleeting but consequent existence between abysses of deep time.

But what worked as steamy, salty prose on the page does not translate to the screen.